Egypt is totally incapable of helping. ¹  For this reason I call her ‘Proud one ²  who is silenced.’” ³ 

biblegateway Isa 30:7

Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her "Rahab who has been exterminated."

Egypt's help is completely worthless; therefore, I call her: Rahab Who Just Sits.

Egypt’s help is completely useless. That is why I call it, ‘Rahab who sits still.’

biblegateway Isa 30:7

to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.

Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."

bibleoremus Isa 30:7

For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her, "Rahab who sits still."

Worthless and futile is the help of Egypt; therefore have I given her this name: Rahab Subdued.

biblegateway Isa 30:7

For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab–Hem–Shebeth.

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.

biblegateway Isa 30:7

Egypt is totally incapable of helping. ¹  For this reason I call her ‘Proud one ²  who is silenced.’” ³ 

¹ tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.”

² tn Heb “Rahab” (רַהַב, rahav), which also appears as a name for Egypt in Ps 87:4. The epithet is also used in the OT for a mythical sea monster symbolic of chaos. See the note at 51:9. A number of English versions use the name “Rahab” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) while others attempt some sort of translation (cf. CEV “a helpless monster”; TEV, NLT “the Harmless Dragon”).

³ tn The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁבֶת (hem shavet) to הַמָּשְׁבָּת (hammashbat), a Hophal participle with prefixed definite article, meaning “the one who is made to cease,” i.e., “destroyed,” or “silenced.” See HALOT 444-45 s.v. ישׁב.